About Paul Forchione

As a Commodity Trading Advisor and Options Strategist, Paul specializes in structuring options spreads that have a theoretical trading edge.

Paul is the author of The ACE Program – Encyclopedia of Options Trading Strategies, a Strategy Series of instructional CDs, and Trading Options Visually, a highly acclaimed book that presents a graphical and mathematical approach for trading options. Paul is also a frequent presenter of webinars and seminars throughout the country and abroad.

In the early ’80s Paul became a market maker on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Two years later, he became a Floor Trader on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and traded options on US Treasury Bond futures for his proprietary account. For seventeen years, Paul was a full service futures and options broker.

Paul’s background also includes:

Off-floor trading of futures and options

Corporate financial forecasting and planning

Operations management

BA with honors in mathematics from Northwestern University

MBA in finance and accounting from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management